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Jennifer Searls

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The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt

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An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used.  (from Wikipedia) Realizing that I tend to like epistolary novels, I’ve been on the lookout for them and recently I found this clever book by Caroline Preston. Preston assembles real newspaper clippings, photos, and other period …

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Miracle. Science. Or What.

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The Thai Navy SEALS posted the announcement on their Facebook page a couple days ago and it landed in a headline on the front page of our paper: “We are not sure if this is a miracle, a science, or what. All the thirteen Wild Boars are now out of the cave.”  Miracle. Science. Or …

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Fists Full of Gold

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BAM. Facebook served up a fabulous On This Day 2009 picture for me today.  Dandelions in the hand of a child.  I’ve been thinking about dandelions a lot lately because I’ve just wrapped up a 6 week writing class and for our first assignment we were supposed to “find some small thing and describe it in less than 500 …

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A Glimpse of Grace in Gold

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I think a lot about “seeing” these days. For one thing, I live in a landscape so rich with crazy-beautiful stuff to see. I walk with a camera and I walk without. Two ways of seeing and they both pay loads of awesome in Alaska. One Sunday afternoon in May, Ethan and I took kayaks …

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